Marin County Parks last week unveiled the final plans for a major expansion of the lone public restroom in Point Reyes Station, increasing the number of toilets at Toby’s Playground from three to 13 after years of makeshift fixes and mounting visitor demand. The design includes a new building on the north side of the parking lot with gender-neutral stalls and two accessible family restrooms, bike parking, electric vehicle chargers, solar-powered outlets and expanded seating areas. The structure will be framed with drought-tolerant native landscaping, and a new quarter-mile pedestrian path will run southeast from the playground to Giacomini Road. “We want to make sure the space is easy to maintain and will stand the test of time,” said Kendra Manning, the project’s landscape architect. Built in 2008 and retrofitted in 2021 with a $165,000 accessibility ramp, the restrooms struggle to handle demand, receiving roughly 6,000 gallons of wastewater daily—well above the septic system’s 900-gallon capacity. To compensate, the county pumps the tanks one to three times a week and has stationed portable toilets behind the facility and elsewhere in town. Now, the septic system will be upgraded with advanced treatment and disposal technologies, including a drip leach field. The project is funded by federal Covid-19 relief dollars earmarked for tourism infrastructure in West Marin. Construction is expected to begin after the permitting and environmental review processes are complete, likely in the summer of 2026. The existing restrooms, playground and pedestrian pathways will remain open during the build.